From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 18 10:36:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51A1A37B407 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 10:36:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3714543FEC for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 10:36:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1051119376.2b2248@mired.org) Received: (qmail 15908 invoked from network); 18 Apr 2003 17:36:16 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 18 Apr 2003 17:36:16 -0000 Received: by guru.mired.org (tmda-inject, from uid 100); Fri, 18 Apr 2003 12:36:16 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16032.14221.681142.650142@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 12:36:13 -0500 To: Nathen Hinson In-Reply-To: <2E4B9354-71B0-11D7-B917-003065C47B66@mail.uhs.utexas.edu> References: <2E4B9354-71B0-11D7-B917-003065C47B66@mail.uhs.utexas.edu> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.74 (Citation) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall and other do not detect disks X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 17:36:18 -0000 In <2E4B9354-71B0-11D7-B917-003065C47B66@mail.uhs.utexas.edu>, Nathen Hinson typed: > *atapci0: port 0xfff0-0xffff at device 1.1 > on pci0 > *ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 > *ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 > *ad0: 1222MB [2484/16/63] at ata0-master > WDMA2 > *ad1: 4121MB [8374/16/63] at ata0-slave WDMA2 > > As you can see both the drive controllers and the drive themselves are > detected correctly. The mainboard is a straight up Intel. Oh, and I > didn't mention this in my previous post but all of this was being done > as root. I have also included the output of the fdisk that was > successful on /dev/ad1. Any sort of operations such as readdressing the > 0 block ( i.e. fdisk -B ) fail with the operation not permitted error > and or if I apply the -I switch. What's the securelevel of your system "sysctl kern.securelevel" will tell you that. I suspect it's to high for you to do the I/O you're trying to do. If so, you'll need to lower the secure level to set up the boot block and partition the disks. You can either edit /etc/rc.conf - look for securelevel - to lower it and reboot, or reboot to single user mode and do the work there. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.